Connecting in a Placeless Time: A Virtual Program with Historian and Newburgh native Kevin Burke Sunday, September 19, 2021 - 3pm (EST)
A Virtual Program with Historian
and Newburgh native Kevin Burke
Sunday, September 19, 3pm (EST)
In his call for a new great awakening to place, Newburgh native Kevin Burke, historian, documentary film producer, and creator, host, and executive producer of the podcast "Your Hometown," will discuss what he's learned interviewing prominent and everyday guests about how where we're from shapes who we are, how everyone's story matters where it mattered, and how the local is the epic in our lives.
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The event is free. Donations are appreciated. A Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees on hour before the event.
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer who has developed the podcast series “Your Hometown,” which he also hosts and produces. In addition to serving as the director of research at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, he is the founder and CEO of Kevin Burke Productions, Inc., a New-York based company. His film credits include working as a producer on the popular genealogy series “Finding Your Roots”, now in its seventh season on PBS, “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song” (PBS, 2021), and “Reconstruction: America after the Civil War” (PBS, 2019), winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Burke is the coauthor of And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) and co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (W. W. Norton & Co., 2016).Burke graduated from Harvard College in 1998 and from Harvard Law School in 2003. He received his master’s degree in History and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard in 2004 and 2006, respectively. A member of the New York State Bar, Burke serves on several boards, including as chair of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Conservancy and president of the Downing Film Center in Newburgh, New York, his hometown. He and his wife live with their two children in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter @Kevin_M_Burke.
Our hometowns – and the years we spend there growing up – loom large and cast long shadows. Whether we stay, move away, or eventually come back, they mark a permanent geography within our very beings. Our experiences there are foundational, our memories of them visceral – their needle ready to drop – and, in the rearview … they’re almost mythic. In this series, I want to discover where we’re from and when we’re from and how that unique crossroads in our coming of age years shapes us forever. One guest. One interview. One hometown at a time.
Learn more about the "Your Hometown" podcast here at www.yourhometown.org.
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